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Sir John Bland-Sutton, 1st Baronet (21 April 1855 โ 20 December 1936), was a British surgeon.[1][2]
Biography
He was the son of Enfield Highway farmer Charles William Sutton and was educated at the local school. From there, he entered a private anatomy school run by Thomas Cooke, teaching anatomy to earn money so he could study at the Middlesex Hospital. There, he became a lecturer. He did this job from 1886 to 1896. In 1886, he also became an Assistant Surgeon, specializing in pelvic operations on women. In 1889, he changed his name from John Bland Sutton to John Bland-Sutton. In 1896, he was replaced as Lecturer in Anatomy at Middlesex Hospital by Arthur Robinson.[3]
In 1905, he was appointed Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, resigning in 1920 to become Consulting Surgeon.[4]
He married twice; firstly in 1886 to Agnes Hobbs of Didcot, and secondly in 1899 to Edith Goff Bigg (1865-1943), the younger daughter of Henry Heather Bigg. They had no children and his title became extinct.
He died in December 1936 and at his own request his ashes were given to the Museum of the Middlesex Hospital.
Selected works
Ligaments (1887)
Evolution and disease (1890)
Tumours, innocent and malignant (1893); several editions